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Speeding for online glory: the internet subculture where young men drive dangerously for likes

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Speeding for online glory: the internet subculture where young men drive dangerously for likes

Social media trend feeds on footage shot from cars racing down busy roads, with potentially lethal consequences

The hashtags tell the story of the potentially lethal social media subculture where young men film themselves hurtling at illegal speeds down busy roads: #speedhunters, #needforspeed, #racing.

The fast-driving internet trend on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube is fed by footage shot from a driver’s perspective of cars going “#fullsend” – the jargon for roaring down dual carriageways – and “#gapping” or “#swimming”, as in weaving dangerously through packed traffic. The posts attract thousands, sometimes millions of views and have been described by Andy Burnham on Monday as “truly reprehensible”.



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